Do wealthy people buying $1M-4M homes near a Metro stop even use the Metro?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm proud to say I have not ridden the Metro in years.

Amen to that. Metro isn't a badge of honor. I live by a metro stop and still drive to work and take Ubers to socialize. Fuck living on other people's schedules and riding like a sardine. People forget that cars are amazing, the people who are proclaiming metro's virtues must never have driven a 911 or sat in a S550.

A cozy uber black Cadillac Escalade w complimentary bottle of Fiji water > Metro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've lived in Chicago and now DC. Both locations have very popular subway systems. They can be convenient but they're gross and the novelty did wear thin. I'm sorry, I don't think it makes you modest, or whatever, to sit next to dirty people, sickly people, disturbed people.

And I think uber and uber black has definitely put a ding in subway use amongst wealthier people under age 40.

"modest, or whatever..."

OMFG



You sicken me.

[Anonymous]

Where are you people seeing all these dirty, disturbed, and impoverished people defecating in the Metro? I've lived here since 1994 and have ridden the Metro thousands of times. Once in a blue moon there's a nutjob in my train car... and what of it? Just don't make eye contact and get off and switch to the next car is you can't handle it. The huge majority of the time it's just normal people commuting. Are you THAT sensitive to seeing human frailty or instability? It messes with you so much that you've sworn off Metro completely and then makes you denigrate the people that take it? WTH?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm proud to say I have not ridden the Metro in years.

It's a bit sad that you take pride in something like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm proud to say I have not ridden the Metro in years.

Amen to that. Metro isn't a badge of honor. I live by a metro stop and still drive to work and take Ubers to socialize. Fuck living on other people's schedules and riding like a sardine. People forget that cars are amazing, the people who are proclaiming metro's virtues must never have driven a 911 or sat in a S550.

Neither is avoiding it.

[Anonymous]

The problem with uber is that you are still stuck in gridlock. Now if you tell me that you take a helicopter to work, I will be impressed.

[Anonymous]

Great living near the metro with teens.
My kid takes metro and bus to go out on weekends with friends.
Also to an internship during the week.
There is no way I want to be stuck driving her everywhere.
Uber maybe but I don't love the idea of her alone in a car with some uber guy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are you people seeing all these dirty, disturbed, and impoverished people defecating in the Metro? I've lived here since 1994 and have ridden the Metro thousands of times. Once in a blue moon there's a nutjob in my train car... and what of it? Just don't make eye contact and get off and switch to the next car is you can't handle it. The huge majority of the time it's just normal people commuting. Are you THAT sensitive to seeing human frailty or instability? It messes with you so much that you've sworn off Metro completely and then makes you denigrate the people that take it? WTH?

Get your head out of the sand. People spit and urinate on trains all the time. Vermin with lice/bed bugs, eating fish, with coughs, drunks and druggies. Thugs robbing people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are you people seeing all these dirty, disturbed, and impoverished people defecating in the Metro? I've lived here since 1994 and have ridden the Metro thousands of times. Once in a blue moon there's a nutjob in my train car... and what of it? Just don't make eye contact and get off and switch to the next car is you can't handle it. The huge majority of the time it's just normal people commuting. Are you THAT sensitive to seeing human frailty or instability? It messes with you so much that you've sworn off Metro completely and then makes you denigrate the people that take it? WTH?

Get your head out of the sand. People spit and urinate on trains all the time. Vermin with lice/bed bugs, eating fish, with coughs, drunks and druggies. Thugs robbing people.

Lurid imagination, PP, and very little more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are you people seeing all these dirty, disturbed, and impoverished people defecating in the Metro? I've lived here since 1994 and have ridden the Metro thousands of times. Once in a blue moon there's a nutjob in my train car... and what of it? Just don't make eye contact and get off and switch to the next car is you can't handle it. The huge majority of the time it's just normal people commuting. Are you THAT sensitive to seeing human frailty or instability? It messes with you so much that you've sworn off Metro completely and then makes you denigrate the people that take it? WTH?

Get your head out of the sand. People spit and urinate on trains all the time. Vermin with lice/bed bugs, eating fish, with coughs, drunks and druggies. Thugs robbing people.

What on earth? Are you taking the train in Beyond Thunderdome? Jesus Christ you're a weirdo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are you people seeing all these dirty, disturbed, and impoverished people defecating in the Metro? I've lived here since 1994 and have ridden the Metro thousands of times. Once in a blue moon there's a nutjob in my train car... and what of it? Just don't make eye contact and get off and switch to the next car is you can't handle it. The huge majority of the time it's just normal people commuting. Are you THAT sensitive to seeing human frailty or instability? It messes with you so much that you've sworn off Metro completely and then makes you denigrate the people that take it? WTH?

Get your head out of the sand. People spit and urinate on trains all the time. Vermin with lice/bed bugs, eating fish, with coughs, drunks and druggies. Thugs robbing people.

You sound a bit...delusional. Try riding the train everyday for a week. You'll see that most of the commuters are office workers, parents with kids, know-it-all college students/Hillterns, some smart-ass kids, and if you're really lucky - a barrage of tourists or Nats game attendees. Time to get out of your shell PP. Also eating fish is a crime now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are you people seeing all these dirty, disturbed, and impoverished people defecating in the Metro? I've lived here since 1994 and have ridden the Metro thousands of times. Once in a blue moon there's a nutjob in my train car... and what of it? Just don't make eye contact and get off and switch to the next car is you can't handle it. The huge majority of the time it's just normal people commuting. Are you THAT sensitive to seeing human frailty or instability? It messes with you so much that you've sworn off Metro completely and then makes you denigrate the people that take it? WTH?

Get your head out of the sand. People spit and urinate on trains all the time. Vermin with lice/bed bugs, eating fish, with coughs, drunks and druggies. Thugs robbing people.

Remind me: Who's mentally ill in this scenario?

To answer OP's question, we live in a $1M+ house near metro, and my husband rides it to and from work every day. We also use the bus a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are you people seeing all these dirty, disturbed, and impoverished people defecating in the Metro? I've lived here since 1994 and have ridden the Metro thousands of times. Once in a blue moon there's a nutjob in my train car... and what of it? Just don't make eye contact and get off and switch to the next car is you can't handle it. The huge majority of the time it's just normal people commuting. Are you THAT sensitive to seeing human frailty or instability? It messes with you so much that you've sworn off Metro completely and then makes you denigrate the people that take it? WTH?

Get your head out of the sand. People spit and urinate on trains all the time. Vermin with lice/bed bugs, eating fish, with coughs, drunks and druggies. Thugs robbing people.

Significant positive correlation between "get your head out of the sand" and racist/classist/unhinged comments on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Our nanny won't even use the metro cause of the bums and thugs that ride it.

[Anonymous]

My kids ride it every day to school. Very rarely late. The whole metro is dying meme is to get more $. It's not that bad.